[Music] I'm Vicki I'm Josh we're with Back Road bus life and this is our art project on Wheels
so this is our bus Mr Nimbus it's a international IC 3000 2004. it's got the DT466 in it that like
million mile engine it's also only 30 feet a lot of national parks you can't go on a lot of
the roads if you're over 30 feet we didn't have to deal with wheel wells in our bus because our
bus is on airbags so our bus actually airs up at like another four inches higher than what
it is right now this door was the original bus door the framing of it welded it together and
did all this wood cladding but it's actually the original bus door this is actually one of our most
recent additions one of the couples that lived in the apartment complex when we were cutting
the bus in half that lived right above it had a bunch of really high-end piece of Live Edge out
on our farm and her dad started following us and saw what we did with our Woodworking and
he's like oh you guys could do a lot better with this wood that anybody in my family so
he actually gave us some of these pieces and he now since has passed so it's really special our
water heaters the excess panel to it here outdoor storage so we built all these storage boxes I got
my welder I've got my table saw this is where our propane is at and we have an extra tank always
great tank down here wrapped it in reflectix and I still actually need to insulate this part here
because we did have some freezing issues just in this section here but this diamond plate metal
was pretty metal was very expensive throughout this build so anything that we could use for
free we did we wanted a bus with a handicap door because we wanted this access point our garage is
this bottom half here and then the top half is actually accessed from the inside so I've got
all my drills you know and they all slip in here everything pretty much actually stays in
place while we're driving to our cat box is here in the garage area that slides out on a drawer
pull then you can clean the cat box from the outside so we did the roof raise right so we
also had to stretch the door so when we did that I decided that I was going to make it a Dutch door
so you can have the top half open if you want keep this part closed and just kind of let the breeze
come in fresh water tank which is underneath our bed and we have 125 gallons of fresh water
and I have a hose bib for outside we have a mini split we just ran the AC for the first
time the other day off of solar it was around 600 watts you can see up top we have our starlink it
really changed the game for us having internet in these areas this is also a newer Edition our catio
big shout out to our friends Bohemian Nomads for showing us the way with this this is actually a
dog kennel that breaks down and gets like pretty flat and then so we can store it inside and when
we get somewhere like this let me just hook it up onto those hooks and use a little bit of foam to
pad the window and that's about it for the outside let's hand it off to Vicki and she'll show you the
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remember to subscribe we both hit a point in the restaurant industry that we just didn't have the
time that we wanted to be able to explore we lived in Colorado in this beautiful state but we never
had the time to do it we both had spent time on the road living out of cars I was forced to by
the price hike in San Francisco so I was living out of my vehicle actually when we met and she
had been traveling with friends so we're like What if we were to do right and that has only started
like researching watching thousands of hours of YouTube we made this choice but our animals didn't
um so we wanted to make sure that they were going to be happy and comfortable we kind of
had budgeted ourselves around like 25 000 was basically what we said for all and done but we
were working at the time too so like in the bank we probably had like maybe eight grand
and then the pandemic well I mean the Panic would already hit but like I I got let go as a chef we
took advantage of it and I just Dove really deep into it I mean Vicki was there too as much as she
possibly could but she was working six days a week there everything doubled tripled in price
everything got crazy it got to the point where we were like completely running out of money it
was like just move into the bus yeah we're not ready move into the bus it was like negative 28
the first night we moved in the bus we definitely had lots of difficulties throughout the build but
we made it through and it only made us stronger and like honestly that's why we know that nothing
can really hold us back at this point we have a little shoe storage here on the side we're still
working on getting everything organized in there this is actually our original first aid kit from
the bus smart to have a first aid kit anyway on the road and then we have kind of our little like
altar space I have enough rocks and crystals and minerals and things that it kind of just took it
over this is our cat perch area inside of here is all of our electrical we have about 1300 watts of
solar batteries we just have the two 200 amp hours of a 24 volt system and they're so K batteries we
have the grow lot which is the charge controller and inverter we had some problems with it so we're
using the grow out as just our inverter but we also have the rennage e-charge controller as well
one of the first things that we actually did for the build what we didn't even have the bus is our
table you take these poles and insert them into the middle piece of the couch and then it slips
over of the pole there so that's just half of it which is really nice when it's just the two of us
and once it's all together it's actually pretty stable we inlaid a bunch of stones in the top of
it so that we could put like a hot pot down and not have to worry so much about the heat of it
we also do have the capability of pulling this whole thing out that way if we have a guest they
can stay with us here we also sometimes set it down and we'll hang up our projector screen here
which is what these binder clips are here for it's just a clip our projector screen up really fast
we actually repurposed the back door of the Jeep Grand Cherokee and used it as our Skylight so it
opens up here we will be getting gastruts in the future just haven't quite gotten there yet all of
our kitchen cabinets were reclaimed so this was actually like DVD and CD storage from somebody's
entertainment center this was like a file cabinet that we use for our toaster oven and air fryer
combo obviously you can see there's a ton of Live Edge in our build we really really like the
look of it at the time we were building we were getting the wood that's Live Edge for cheaper than
we could buy a two by four definitely one of our biggest thing is the countertop the front piece is
separate from the back piece that's actually what the river is poured over is the seam of the two
pieces of Live Edge and then there's actually like different mosses and stones that are laid into the
countertop on this side we have our Berkey which we use all day every day I have this just to
monitor where we are it'll show like the high and low in the past 24 hours this is our controls for
our furion hot water heater and then this is our controller for our diesel heater which is actually
right here so we have to put a door in front of it because otherwise our cat will try to lay
inside of the diesel heater and then our hot water heater is actually under here too so you can kind
of see the back of it from there the rest of it is storage for like our bowls and things so this is
kind of our Craft Space so this folds up here into a bench so that we can work in here which has been
great and then it's really nice being next to this window too that we can prop open and get fresh air
too so you're still getting the view and feeling like you're outside even when you're inside
and then we have the cubic mini wood burning stove back here as well which has been amazing
and then there's the light that this was 100 Josh I take no credit for this whatsoever he took all
four of those panels and laid them and like routed them out separately and then put it all together
and added all of the stones and it's just totally mind-blowing and then back here is the bathroom we
did a hallway style bathroom so to take a shower you'll close both of the doors off we use these
copper panels that we actually got on Amazon they are plastic so they're super lightweight we were
kind of worried at first about how hard it would be to keep clean but it really isn't bad at all
and it works great for us so we do have a DIY composting toilet and then we also do have our
Skylight over the shower as well which is really nice just to be able to help vent and then the
inside of this door is actually resin too so when you're actually in here it's like very Majestic
so this is our bedroom area and something that's really really cool that starts back here is our
litter box actually for the cats so they go into this little spot here and they have to go up a
ramp and around the corner to get into the litter box litter will fall out of their paws a little
bit more so it stops it from getting into the bus and then the cats beds are back here as well
so they both have little tunnels in the back that they go into and then the back door opens so both
of them have a view to the outside if we have the back door propped open when we built the shelves
there's actually a steel strip that we inlaid into the shelf and poured resin over so like things
that have magnets can sit here while we're moving and don't have to we don't have to put them down
I think really the last little tidbit in here is we have a little workstation so we can swing this
monitor and then we have this little piece that drops down and have all of our stuff stored so
that we can do work at the computer and everything here and just have a little desk Workstation
I feel like every time we do a trip we figure out at least one thing to make it easier in the
long run I mean there were a lot of really nice things that we have now that we did not start
off with and you just kind of realize that maybe you don't need everything to start which I don't
know if we maybe would have done the same thing if we weren't forced to move in quickly but you
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